Panasonic to Sponsor MIT's Solar Vehicle Team

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Panasonic Corporation just announced that it will sponsor Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT). The team will be competing in the upcoming Global Green Challenge (GCG) to be held in October of this year in Australia. As part of the sponsorship, Panasonic will provide the team with its a high-capacity (2.9 [...]

Eco Transport 2.0: It's Leaps and Bounds

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When I was nine years old – I just knew something along just these lines was in our futuristic future! My Jetpack: finally! Here it is; invented by German aerospace engineer Alexander Boeck, and first seen (by me) in the Chinese Olympics. Here, finally, on sale in stores near you, at $269; is that new [...]

Cash for Clunkers Program Out of Money?

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You can’t turn on the TV and avoid the ads for the dealers promoting the Cash for Clunkers program. Experts predicted that the money would last at least two to three weeks, but alas, it is not so. The LA Times is reporting that in less than one week, the $1 billion dollars for the [...]

Natural Gas Conversions Could Cost a Couple Hundred

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But they don’t. It costs between $12,500 to $22,500 to convert a gasoline-powered car to natural gas in an autoshop. That old gas hog just can’t be greened up for cheap. Now. But it could be. Natural gas conversions don’t not have to cost that much: there is no technological problem driving what it truly [...]

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Clean Green Breeze in Santa Monica

Editor’s Note: This is the first post from Nevres Cefo, author of Two Cents Per Mile: Will President Obama Make it Happen with the Stroke of a Pen? For more information, please visit his website. I am thrilled, not just about all of the current green action, activism, and blogging…but also the real life examples [...]

Biofuel Oasis: Empowering Alternative Fuel Use

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Running your car on biodiesel fuel is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. BioFuel Oasis, a women’s collective/owned business in Berkeley, offers not only fuel, but a level of expertise and service you haven’t experienced in a fuel transaction in years. Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, normally from soybeans. You can grow [...]

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Q & A With OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry

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Earlier this week we covered the announcement that OriginOil had created a Live Extraction process for converting algae to oil coined, ‘milking’. This is just one of several big breakthroughs the company has had during the past year so I decided to catch up with CEO Riggs Eckelberry to get his take on algae to [...]

Shaquille O'Neal Helps to Debut the World's First E-Fuel MicroFueler

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Who needs a gas station to fill your tank with ethanol? Not you. GreenHouse has just announced the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into ethanol. The first installation of the E-Fuel MicroFueler was in the home of none other than basketball great Shaquille O’Neal, who lives in Pacific Palisades [...]